"Look, Arthur was ruining the firm. But I didn't kill him. I was on a zoom call with our European stock brokers until 11:30 PM. After that, I drove straight down to the Apex headquarters lounge to gather my physical files because I heard Arthur was planning to fire me. I got to the security gate at almost midnight. Ask Briggs! Oh wait, you can't trust Briggs—when I pulled up, the main security console desk was completely empty and the gate was left wide open. Where was he?"

"Look, I was downtown at the corporate Tech-Launch Gala all night long. Hundreds of tech personnel saw me. I arrived around 7:30 PM, drank champagne, and didn't leave the main floor ballroom until well past 1:00 AM. If you're wondering about the deleted photo from my feed, talk to our Legal compliance team. I took a selfie near the VIP lounge at midnight, but the background accidentally caught a competitor's acquisition contract sitting open on a table. Legal panicked about an SEC insider-trading violation, flagged the node, and forced me to scrub the entire post from the internet immediately."

"Bob is lying to save his own skin. I was glued to the main monitor console station from 11:00 PM until the police arrived at 12:15 AM. Bob rolled up to my gate at 11:40 PM looking incredibly nervous. Sarah Vance wasn't at the office at all. Though, if you want a real lead, someone remotely logged into Arthur's terminal profile using an administrative override clearance right before the alarms tripped at midnight. Only someone with corporate root access credentials could bypass my physical firewall."